Greatest Indians

Bhaskar Dasgupta September 28, 2003

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#11 Posted by cosmic_citizen on October 14, 2003 2:30:38 pm

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Mohammad Ali Jinnah.... free gift to Pakistan... any way.. he is undisputedly the greatest Pakistani to have ever walked on this earth....

#6..
mmm....
Forget it...

Author!... in the first place... you wrote the article just for Gavaskar!!!

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#10 Posted by kabuliwallah on September 30, 2003 6:20:08 pm

Let the past be...try this out for great:

http://in.rediff.com/money/2003/sep/30inter.htm

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#9 Posted by harris_ansari on September 30, 2003 9:58:03 am

I think your research is biased. If you were going to select among greatest Indians of all times, then how can you forget Mohammad Ali Jinnah. It is a shame that someone with your intellect is so biased and prejudice.

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#8 Posted by harimau on September 30, 2003 6:26:41 am

Ref Ralph #6

How can you forget the greatest journalist of India?

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#7 Posted by bbabu on September 29, 2003 9:54:25 pm

A nice topic for discussion

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#6 Posted by Ralph on September 29, 2003 8:42:39 pm

Sammerjb

The greatest human to ever grace the earth: Imran Khan followed by Jinnah

The most brilliant military strategist in history: Musharraf

The most evil politician: Nehru, followed by Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif

The most violent religious fundamentalist organization operating in the world: BJP

The event most certain to occur in the next five years: Kashmiri `freedom`

The greatest philosopher ever: Iqbal

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#5 Posted by kaurasach on September 29, 2003 9:32:18 am

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#4 Posted by SameerJB on September 29, 2003 9:32:18 am

I hate to say it but we, desis, have obsession with finding one on the top of every discpline as the ``Greatest`` with giving too much weightage to past. We often see people saying, Ghalib, Iqbal, Ala Hazrat Raza Barelvi, Musharraf, Jinnah, Gandhi, Amir Khusro, Tansen, Lata Mangeshkar as the greatest and the list goes on and on. Nobody doubts their greatness but obsession with clearly pointing one as greatest has its own drawbacks. It idealizes one, and making only those aspirants break to the top who are copycats of the greatest. Take for example Lata. She was a great singer but her pitch and frequency has become standard for female vocalists and only those who copy her rather unnatural pitch and frequency combination voice like Suman Kalyanpur, Anuradha Paudwal, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Alka Yagnik, Chitra Singh etc can make it to Hindi singing, while women trying to sing in their natural voice like Ila Arun make it occasionally.

So who is the greatest sportsman in USA? Michael Jordan, Jackie Robinson, Tiger Woods, Jimmy Connors,................100 more.

I look forward to seeing field marshal`s list of the greatest.

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#3 Posted by rsaxena on September 29, 2003 6:38:26 am

...and the point is?...

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#2 Posted by r.a.janjua on September 29, 2003 12:32:14 am

a pretty stupid set in almost every category - e.g., the author picks tipu sultan over chandragupta who is not even mentioned.